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Bug 18193 - It's not clear whether "The HTMLPropertiesCollection interface represents a collection of elements that add name-value pairs to a particular item in the microdata model." is a normative requirement
Summary: It's not clear whether "The HTMLPropertiesCollection interface represents a c...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Silvia Pfeiffer
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-07-18 17:37 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-28 05:15 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2012-07-18 17:37:43 UTC 
This was was cloned from bug 17194 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-05-25 19:08:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2012-05-25 19:08:55 +0000 
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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-dom-interfaces.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#htmlpropertiescollection-0
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#htmlpropertiescollection-0

Comment:
It's not clear whether "The HTMLPropertiesCollection interface represents a
collection of elements that add name-value pairs to a particular item in the
microdata model." is a normative requirement

Posted from: 71.184.125.56 by bzbarsky@mit.edu
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 #1   Boris Zbarsky                                   2012-05-25 19:16:01 +0000 
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To expand on this:

It looks like a non-normative thing because of "a collection" vs "the collection".  But "represents" is a technical term for collections: it determines the exact set of names and ids that the collection has.  So if this is a non-normative statement, then we should not use "represents" here, ideally.

On the other hand, if this requirement is normative, then I'm not sure what it's supposed to mean, exactly.

And specifically, what should the .properties be for an element not in a document?  If I ignore this statement, the spec currently says empty collection.
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Comment 1 Silvia Pfeiffer 2012-09-28 05:15:56 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: applied patch
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/003b012950d9df4b7c837a1a3c9f55eedbcd8734
Rationale: adopted resolution by WHATWG